Dialexicon: experiments in language and listening

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Noah Goodbaum AKA The Mighty Rhino https://bit.ly/RhinoDiscography on Spotify and https://themightyrhino.bandcamp.com/track/company-policy

Author of acclaimed indigenous futurist climate fiction novella "Sordidez" E.G. Condé is a queer Boricua writer of speculative fiction. He is one of the creators of Taínofuturism, an emerging genre of art and storytelling that imagines decolonized futures that center indigenous Caribbean traditions and cosmologies. https://egconde.com/

Shad is a Toronto rapper who's won a Juno and has released seven full-length albums. He's on instagram @shadkmusic

George Elliott Clarke is the author of "Where Beauty Survived: A Memoir of Race, Family Secrets, and Africadia". He is the former poet Laureate of Toronto and of Parliament. He teaches poetry courses at the University of Toronto.

Anna Von Frances lives in Mexico with her daughter Luna. She's been several kinds of entrepreneur and CEO.

Karla Ghartey, RN, MN, is a professor of nursing, a founding member of Sudbury unsanctioned overdose prevention group, and a mom. I asked her about the overlap of those three areas, for her. The words that emerged were: Harm reduction: fostering independence and preventing people (kids and people who inject drugs) from killing themselves People who inject drugs: how we refer to people in a given community and not defining those people by one need or aspect of life

Mania attended the Beat Street event December 22, 2023 and delivered a live interview in front of a small audience.

Lily attended the Beat Street event December 22, 2023 and delivered a live interview in front of a small audience.

Ali attended the Beat Street event December 22, 2023 and delivered a live interview in front of a small audience.

tUkU is a composer, singer, and performance artist, exploring the relationship between words and melody; voice as archive to sonically weave community. A Dora-nominated theatre composer and a poetic songwriter who excels at uniting text with complex harmonic songlines, tUkU honours the place singing takes in black woman culture. ‘I come to music through a powerful musical lineage, from the Bey family of artists, in Canada and the US, prominently rooted in jazz culture. ‘I have been singing with my mother and sister since I was a child.’  The recipient of a Chalmers Arts Fellowship, tUkU created a project titled diary of a salt. eater, to set to melody select poems from nayyirah waheed’s salt. for black woman chorus. In research into ways of being, tUkU recently participated in collective process work facilitated by philosopher/writer/activist Bayo Akomolafe.  tUkU is currently composing and recording her solo song set entitled luna’s re-. ‘More than anything, the experience of listening shapes my choices of expression as an artist and inspires my day-to-day movements as a human being.’  CATEGORY:WOMAN is tUkU’s debut as a film composer.

Carter is the second of 5 people interviewed Friday December 22, 2023 at Isaiah Gibson and Ofield Williams' Beatstreet event "Electric Potlatch." He shares about his current audio drama "Capella" about a man stuck in an abandoned space station blasting tunes from every corner of the galaxy in hopes of being found. https://youtu.be/6JdxmdrS0mc?si=-ZV_JVMMHMblh93h

Journalist, writer and strongman lifter Alyssa Ages sits with Dialexicon to answer to "strength" and "healing". Her book "Secrets of Giants: A Journey to Uncover the True Meaning of Strength" is available here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707130/secrets-of-giants-by-alyssa-ages/ 

I got to speak with Sunu Chandy on her way to DC in the car outside the airport. She was in Toronto promoting her book of poetry "My Dear Comrades." The first question came out of the beautiful cover art by Ragni Agarwal: an image of east Asian queer love, an image of closeness. From that, then: What does vulnerability mean to you? Sunu answered "Not having to put on a show. Being able to talk about what's really going on and be real with people both in a political sense about what's causing rage, and what's causing joy--because people will come for you either way!" Episode photo credit: Fid Thompson

Dialexicon: experiments in listening. This introduction is a good place to start, to do your own Dialexicon interview. With your friend, family member, neighbour, hero.